Hyderabad, December 10, 2010 : .The peaceful election for six Telangana Legislative Council seats from local authorities was conducted under tight security on Friday.Local body representatives, including corporators, councilors, ZPTC and MPTC members, cast their votes in the six constituencies in five undivided districts of Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Medak and NalgondaThe polling was held for two seats in Karimnagar district and one each in the remaining four districts.A total of 5,326 voters were eligible to cast their votes.Shashank Goel, Chief Electoral Officer, stated that Karimnagar had the largest turnout at 99.70 percent.Next came Medak (99.52%), Nalgonda (97.01), Khammam (96.09%) and Adilabad (91.78%).He said the polling was peaceful and smooth at all the 37 polling stations, in which 26 candidates are in fray.The CEO said that counting of votes will be taken up on December 14, for which tight security arrangements have been made at the strong rooms where the ballot boxes are kept.Goel stated that the Covid-19 protocol will be strictly enforced throughout the counting and victory procesions will not be allowed after declarations of results.Facing rebel trouble, ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) had shifted its local body members to Bengaluru, Goa, Delhi and other places to prevent the opposition parties from poaching.They were brought to a resort on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Thursday, from where they left for their respective districts on Friday morning.
TRS rebel candidate and former Karimnagar Mayor Sardar Ravinder Singh is contesting from one of the seats in the district.The BJP extended support to him.Congress candidates are in the fray in Medak, Khammam and Adilabad.Last month, the Election Commission of India issued notice for six Council seats from constituencies with local authority.Earlier, Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K.Kavitha and five other candidates of TRS were declared elected unanimously.Kavitha was elected from the Nizamabad constituency.
The others who were elected to the upper house of the state legislature are Patnam Mahender Reddy, Shambipur Raju (both from Rangareddy district), Pochampally Srinivas Reddy (Warangal), Kasireddy Narayana Reddy and Kuchumalla Damodar Reddy (both from Mahabubnagar district).ms/arm
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